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Was he texting?(WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP)(Brief article)
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September 29, 2008
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1 LOS ANGELES--Was the engineer of a passenger train that crashed, killing 25 people, texting while driving? Federal investigators are trying to figure that out. The Metrolink train was carrying 225 commuters from Los Angeles when it slammed into a freight train on September 12.
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"I saw it coming," passenger Eric Forbes, 56, told the Los Angeles Times after he was pulled from the wreckage. "There was no time to stop," he said. "The ...
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